English subtitles for clip: File:La hantise (1912).webm

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The Obsession

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While preparing for a voyage to America, Jacques Trévoux, a Parisian trader, receives a letter from a friend.

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Dear Friend, I advise you to postpone your trip.
The Atlantic is furrowed with icebergs
and navigation is made dangerous by the fact the ships are still sailing their winter routes.

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Heading the pleas of his wife and son, Monsieur Trévoux cancels his trip.

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Le Havre Navigation Company:
Order cabin. Will depart at a later date.
- Trévoux

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A few days later, Madame Trévoux encounters a fashionable palm-reader: Josepha de Delphes.

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Concerned that the palmist refuses to reveal her future in public, Madame Trévoux arranges a private sitting.

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Madame Trévoux
147 Laffitte Street, tomorrow at three o'clock.


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A distressing revelation.

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A mere glance reveals to Josepha de Delphes the client's fortune.

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The palmist reveals that the unfortunate woman faces the imminent loss of a loved one.

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Will it be her husband?
Her son?

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Between marital tenderness and maternal love, it is the mother's instinct that matters.

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The largest ship in the world, the TITANIC, the masterpiece of modern shipbuilding, absolutely unsinkable, it will be docking in Cherbourg on April 10, on its inaugural voyage to New York.

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Cherbourg Navigation Company:
Please reserve a first-class cabin on board of Titanic.
- Trévoux

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Mr. Trévoux leaves for Cherbourg, where he will embark aboard the TITANIC.

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My dear godfather, i beg you to come stay with me for a few days. Jacques is going to Cherbourg, where he will board the "Titanic".

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And i absolutely need to see you, to speak to you.
Come quickly. Your goddaughter, Jeanne Trévoux.

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However, on the night of April 10, the TITANIC leaves Cherbourg, the only stopover he will ever make.

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Haunted by obsession, Madame Trévoux observed in the night the lights of the Eiffel Tower,

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as if to surprise the secret of invisible messages brought through the darkness by radio waves.

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And while, aboard, an orchestra of heroes plays "Nearer, My God, to Thee"
the TITANIC sinks to the bottom of the sea.

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At Paris, however, M. Octave Jullien, Madame Trévoux's old godfather, has rushed from the depths of the province to respond to his goddaughter call.

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Kisses to the two of you.
- Trévoux

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Special Edition:
SINKING OF THE TITANIC
The biggest naval catastrophe of modern times.
1800 Victims. Women and children saved first.

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The child's grief is so great that his life is in danger.

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However, the CARPATHIA arrives in New York, brining the survivors of the TITANIC.

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A telegram

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Rescued by Carpathia, i'm safe.
Kisses to the two of you. I'm comming back.
- Trévoux

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and now, the mother, more than ever haunted by the palmist prediction, wonders if her son's life will be the price of the father's salvation.

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The Obsession

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The godfather's idea

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To Miss. Josepha de Delphes.
''Mademoiselle''...
I am in Paris for a few days, to attend the marriage of one of my nieces.
I would be grateful if you'd come tomorrow at at three o'clock to the Cosmopolitan Hotel...

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...to read the young woman's palm. Pardon me for not visiting you at your hotel but my niece does not believe in palmistry. I wish to surprise her with this consultation.

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At the Cosmopolitan Hotel, the godfather hides Jeanne behind a curtain, allowing only her hand to protude.

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For a handsome sum, he persuades Josepha de Delphes to thus reveal the destiny of his concealed "niece."

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The palmist predicts a glowing future to the bride-to-be.

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The godfather reveals his trickery, and the confused pseudo-soothsayer runs away.

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He finds in the reticule forgotten by Josepha this letter:

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My dear Lolote,
Happy to hear that your business thrives in Paris while i am looking for and angle here in Montigny.

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Amass as many imbeciles as you can, so we can soon retire to the countryside where a fresh crop of suckers await us.

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- Your Juliot

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The future revealed by hand towels
Mme Sybil de Cumes, palm-reader
371, Coliseum Street. Consultation: 20 francs.

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Jeanne Trévoux laughingly tears up the card.
Her obsession has vanished along her belief in palmistry.